Biometrics Battle

• Nilekani's biometrics battle: Details of the truce

  The Cabinet today has officially sanctioned the terms of a truce between Nandan Nilekani and Home Minister P Chidambaram. The two departments had been battling over the issue of biometrics - the right to scan India's eyes and fingerprints.

• Nandan Nilekani's battle for biometrics ends with compromise

  The battle over biometrics between Nandan Nilekani's department and the Home Ministry has ended in a compromise. At a meeting chaired by the Prime Minister and attended by senior ministers, Mr Nilekani, and Home Minister P Chidambram, it was resolved that the fingerprints and iris scans of Indians will be collected by both teams, with as little du...

• Nandan Nilekani on UIDAI and the biometrics battle

  UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani speaks to NDTV's Sreenivasan Jain on the UID project Aadhaar.

• Nandan Nilekani and the biometrics battle

  UIDAI is, let's face it, not a zippy acronym. But the Unique Identification Authority of India - again, not a catchy title for a project - owes its very high-profile to its leader Nandan Nilekani, the alleged rivalry the scheme has stirred up in the Cabinet, and its mission statement - to provide to every Indian a card bearing a 12-digit ID or aadh...